Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.